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Monday, January 30, 2017

Letter to the Principal

Dear Ms. Adams,

I'm deeply concerned about hate speech against Amelie Panai, the daughter of a Muslim. Many things have happened to her recently, but perhaps the worst happened today, where students said "she should be killed before she bombs the school,"

This is absolutely unacceptable as I'm sure you know.

The disinhibiting effect of the current president's speech has resulted in students at my job (Rice U), who are normally very shy and introverted, doing things such as wearing swastikas in the library.

I understand from my daughter, who is Amelie's best friend, that students have drawn swastikas on the dividers of students who attend classes that Amelie attends.

When stuff happens at my school I tell the president to make a statement--he usually doesn't do it, for whatever reason--but I just couldn't hear what I have been hearing without writing to you to share.

Dear Timothy Morton, thanks for your work and spreading consciousness. I have only now the time to study your work in more depth and was also intrigued by The Guardian's recent article on you. I am looking forward reading your work on "magic". How far will you go with it.. well, let's see.

I thank you for standing up against bigotry and far right hate, violence and mind twisting, but also wonder (I hope I will find out more once the books arrived via the local library here in Berlin): Are you incorporating any ideas from Islam in your work? It could be a profound gesture of solidarity if you quote some lines from the Quran.

This is a very nice article on Islam & Ecology:http://www.greenmuslims.org/islam-and-ecology/

What happens at the school btw, any updates?

With kind regards from Berlin

PS: I too gathered some ideas on Islam & Ecology, here. We are many. http://www.theartofislamichealing.com/

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Timothy Morton is the author of Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), eight other books and 200 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. In 2014 Morton gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory. He is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. Email me

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“Picking up where his most obvious predecessors, Gregory Bateson and Felix Guattari, left off, Morton understands mental ecology as the ground zero of ecological thinking, as that which must be redressed before anything else and above all. Morton goes beyond both his forebears, however, in repairing the rift between science and the humanities, which the Enlightenment opened up and against which Romanticism reacted. Perhaps most pleasantly surprising, given its erudition, is that in its stylistic elegance The Ecological Thought is as satisfying to read as it is necessary to ponder.”—Vince Carducci